Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toward week's end the pace of metal speculation in both London and the U. S. slowed appreciably. Ominous reports that the British Government would step in, if speculators continued to boost the costs of rearmament, dampened London's ardor. But metals did not calm down until zinc had zoomed to the highest price in eleven years (7½ per lb.) and lead, in the heaviest trading in that heavy metal in the history of the New York Commodity Exchange, was whooped to 7¼? per lb., highest since...
...nnhilde in Götterdämmerung is the hardest role in all grand opera. She suffers such violent emotions, has to sing such grueling high passages, that few singers have ever made her sound convincing. Wagner used to pace the floor in anguish while writing Brünnhilde's songs. Time and again he asked himself whether any woman alive would be equal to them. Last week's audience again marveled at Kirsten Flagstad's command of the role, the way she used her strong, rich voice to convey Brünnhilde's unutterable happiness...
Selassie, Göring & Pajamas. Zest and pace were given to the approaching Coronation by striking events last week. With faint shrugs and slightly lifted eyebrows civil servants of the Foreign Office told the press that, since His Majesty's Government still recognize the Ethiopian Government of Haile Selassie (although he has been driven from Addis Ababa) and the Spanish Government of Francisco Largo Caballero (although he has been driven from Madrid), invitations have had to be dispatched to these Governments asking them to send representatives to the Coronation. At news of this Benito Mussolini, who was recently appeased...
...unusually fine casting, even in the smallest parts, and a leisurely yet precise pace that never drags, which give the picture its charm. There is a sort of civilized restraint throughout, even in the sense of inevitability that drives the picture on. Mizzi doesn't need to rouge garishly and wiggle her hips to show that she's free and easy. The men in uniform don't feel called upon to swagger and shout orders and twist their mustaches in order to demonstrate their army spirit and discipline. There's no order of onions in the tears, and no emotional...
...that could afford one had a "den," with leather armchair, pennants on the wall, an ashtray shaped like a skull. Lucky theatre-goers saw Ben Hur, with real horses racing madly on a treadmill track. Cars were called "au-to-mo-biles," 25 miles an hour was a devilish pace, a puncture a major accident. Against such a 1904 backdrop, Author Brinig this week published a lengthy (570-page) tale that covered the U. S. from San Francisco to Manhattan, from Main Street in Montana to high life in Saratoga. Readers who flinch at phantoms need have no fear. Author...